Comic #147: Prepothteruth (Patreon)

Originally published: June 15, 2008.

Oh man. I feel like I really have to explain myself with this one.

You have to understand, back in 2008 when I was writing these, there was no social media. The entirety of my feedback system for my comics existed on the Dark Legacy Comics forums. Remember those days?

So this comic was targeted almost exclusively to my forum audience. During the entirety of the NPC rebellion arc, I would get one or two comments per comic thread about the inaccuracies of the elements within the plot, in some cases specific examples given by the fellow in this comic. So this was my way of poking fun at them. Man, if only I knew what was coming with social media, maybe I would have been more patient with those sporadic forum critics.

Up until this moment of the arc, Krom had never appeared. Now I don't recall if this was coincidental, or if I was actually planning to use him as an out, but once people started mentioning his absence, and their predictions for his appearance, I decided to subvert expectations and kill him off.

The more I read into this arc, the more I miss long storylines. Maybe I need to start thinking about doing a long storyline just for Patreon. Let it go off the walls with no need for catering to the one-time reader.